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The man who invented Aztec crystal skulls: the adventures of Eugáene Boban
EugÞne Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, travelled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully 'palmed off' a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe's leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of EugÞne Boban; this book also explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.
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Un \nuovo\ caso di silominiatura: l'esemplare perugino della Bibbia volgare dell'ottobre 1471
The phenomenon of woodcut illumination is limited to Venice in around 1470 but despite this is still of a certain artistic, technical and cultural importance. In an example found in Perugia (the vernacular Bible printed in October 1471), water damage enables us to see very clearly the marks left by the woodblock before the illuminator painted over it. It is in fact the second copy known (after the one in Manchester) with figures similarly 'stamped'. The printing of the introductory rubric, in ochre-coloured ink to imitate gold, is also noteworthy.
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The stories behind names
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This paper analyses theoretical and methodological aspects of the practice of
etymology as it was employed by ancient Roman antiquarians to serve their
research. Based on a corpus of selected antiquarian etymologies dating to the
last two centuries of the Roman Republic, the paper firstly surveys the views
on the origin and function of names implied by those etymologies and contends
that those views were rooted in Stoic philosophy of language. Subsequently,
the paper interrogates the method through which antiquarians
reconstructed their etymologies, which mostly consisted of arbitrary manipulation
of letters with little awareness of or concern for morphological boundaries,
similarly, again, to Stoic etymologising. Drawing attention to the fact
that, in late Republican Rome, superior (by modern standards) etymological
methods were available which had been developed in other traditions, the
paper speculates on the reasons why, despite that, the Stoic approach became
canonical in Roman antiquarianism.
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Potential self-regulatory mechanisms of yoga for psychological health
Research suggesting the beneficial effects of yoga on myriad aspects of psychological health has proliferated in recent years, yet there is currently no overarching framework by which to understand yoga's potential beneficial effects. Here we provide a theoretical framework and systems-based network model of yoga that focuses on integration of top-down and bottom-up forms of self-regulation. We begin by contextualizing yoga in historical and contemporary settings, and then detail how specific components of yoga practice may affect cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and autonomic output under stress through an emphasis on interoception and bottom-up input, resulting in physical and psychological health. The model describes yoga practice as a comprehensive skillset of synergistic process tools that facilitate bidirectional feedback and integration between high- and low-level brain networks, and afferent and re-afferent input from interoceptive processes (somatosensory, viscerosensory, chemosensory). From a predictive coding perspective we propose a shift to perceptual inference for stress modulation and optimal self-regulation. We describe how the processes that sub-serve self-regulation become more automatized and efficient over time and practice, requiring less effort to initiate when necessary and terminate more rapidly when no longer needed. To support our proposed model, we present the available evidence for yoga affecting self-regulatory pathways, integrating existing constructs from behavior theory and cognitive neuroscience with emerging yoga and meditation research. This paper is intended to guide future basic and clinical research, specifically targeting areas of development in the treatment of stress-mediated psychological disorders.
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Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800
This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called \"antiquarian.\" As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of antiquarian-type scholarship on the past, on nature, and on peoples undertaken at either end of the Eurasian landmass between 1500 and 1800. As a historiographical project, the book challenges the received---and often very much under conceptualized---use of the term \"antiquarian\" in both European and Chinese contexts. Readers will not only learn more about the range of European and Chinese scholarship on the past---and especially the material past---but they will also be able to integrate some of the historiographical observations and corrections into new ways of conceiving of the history of historical scholarship in Europe since the Renaissance, and to reflect on the impact of these European terms on Chinese approaches to the Chinese past. This comparison is a two-way street, with the European tradition clarified by knowledge of Chinese practices, and Chinese approaches better understood when placed alongside the European ones.
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Mimn. fr. 9, 5 W.2
Este artículo se centra en la crux del verso 5 de Mimn. fr. 9 W.2, donde se espera una referencia a un río. La primera parte expone un estado de la cuestión sobre las conjeturas anteriores. En la segunda se propone la enmienda Δι̯αστενέεντος, basada en el lugar llamado τὰ Στενά, que es cruzado por el río Tahtalı Çayı.
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